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The Diandra de Morrell Douglas Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$219k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$314kInternational$60kHousing & Shelter$20kHealth$19kCrime & Legal$15kPhilanthropy$12kArts & Culture$8kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$16,466
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$200,000
NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION$16,466
HEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FD$2,000
NYS SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FD: $2k → 12%UCSB FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%NYBKW CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVATORY: $3k → 9%NEW YORK STATE SHERIFFS INSTITUTE: $500 → 14%NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $7k → 17%SQUASH DREAMERS: $5k → 6%LAND CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE: $5k → 7%NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%NYBKW CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%NYS SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE: $200 → 14%NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $7k → 17%NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ASIA SOCIETY: $75 → 17%NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $2k → 17%UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%CONCERTS IN MOTION: $3k → 17%NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL: $7k → 17%NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION: $16k → 14%BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL: $7k → 17%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $7k → 17%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $7k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER: $12k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER: $8k → 17%PARTNERSHIP FOR DRUG FREE KIDS: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$133k · 6 repeat orgs$326k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$133k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-18%
-16%

Still filing today

83%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NA
    NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $59k · revenue -57%
  • NC
    NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +99%
  • TB
    THE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue -18%

Funded once

  • UF
    UCSB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • SD
    SQUASH DREAMERS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • LC
    Land Conservation Assistance Network
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -49%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
New York University School of Law Foundation

The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…

Education
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
7
Institute of Fine Arts Foundation

Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.

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8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
The City University of New York School of Law Foundation Inc

The foundation supports the law school in its mission to increase access to legal education to those from groups underrepresented in the profession and to prepare its graduates for public interest and public service practice.

Education
11
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
12
Center for Arms Control and

A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; the most unlike its peers is The Asia Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATIONTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL: $14,000 · EducationTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOLUCSB FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherUCSB FOUNDATIONALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $14,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATIONNYBKW CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherNYBKW CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONSQUASH DREAMERS: $5,000 · OtherPartnership for a Drug-Free America: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $4,700 · OtherNUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION: $59,466 · InternationalNUCLEAR AGE PE…+1 more: $75 · InternationalNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC: $19,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $14,000 · Crime & LegalNEW YORK STATE SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE: $500 · Crime & LegalCONCERTS IN MOTION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureVIENNESE OPERA BALL: $1,500 · Arts & CultureLand Conservation Assistance Network: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$214,000Other$140,700International$59,541Housing & Shelter$19,500Crime & Legal$14,500Arts & Culture$5,500Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION: $59,466 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNYBKW CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetLand Conservation Assistance Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPartnership for a Drug-Free America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCERTS IN MOTION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIENNESE OPERA BALL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK STATE SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundNY11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Diandra de Morrell Douglas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Diandra de Morrell Douglas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Diandra de Morrell Douglas Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Diandra de Morrell Douglas Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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